Tim Morton

Recovering from a very long day of photographing plants in Sweden.

Chemical Ecology; Natural Product Chemistry

Background
BS in Botany (USF 1985) classical botany and ecology
MS in Natural Product Chemistry (USF 1990) on nonprotein amino acids of a genus of tropical leguminous tree
PhD SUNY Stony Brook working with Doug Futuyma to expand my research base to include insects (1990-1994)
Penn State transfer to the Schultz for chemical analysis (PhD in Entomology 1997)
Post Doc in Joy Bergelson’s lab (1997-2001) to help her lab develop chemical ecology
Visiting Assistant Professor at Lake Forest College (2000-2003)
Visiting Assistant Professor at Ursinus College (2003-2006)
Associate Professor at College of Lake County (2007-2009)
Adjunct Professor at Carthage College (2012)
Returned to University of Chicago as Research Manager in Bergelson lab (2012-)

Lema trilinea feeding on Solanum dulcamara illustrating a fecal shield.A slide outlining a different way of viewing the role of chemicals in plant defense. I think we neglect the importance of the ‘other’ chemicals and focus too heavily upon the well-known ‘big guns’ of defense like alkaloids.